DO METALHEADS SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE?

Metalheads are stereotyped as a homophobic bunch, but I’d love to prove the nay-sayers wrong. There’s an intelligent, thoughtful conscientious community of metalheads whose opinions are often drowned out by the knuckle-dragging, trenchcoat-wearing, redneck image the media portrays.

If you’re one of the many metalheads who believes in the rights of gay people to marry, I encourage you to sign the Freedom To Marry petition, a letter to President Obama urging him to end the exclusion of gays from legal marriage.

Let’s see how far we can take this. Tell your friends in bands, and have them tell their friends in bands. It’d be incredible to see the names of some metal “celebrities” alongside the likes of Rufus Wainwright, Mya and Melissa Etheridge on the list of famous people who have already signed the petition. And who knows, that might just help a little bit in lifting the homophobic stigma associated with metal.

As if you needed to be invited, tell us what you think on these issues in the comments.

-VN